Simon R. Green

Books can be terrible snobs.

— Simon R. Green

“CHAPTER SIX Dangerous Lab Interns”

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Oh God, it's her, run!

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Revenge is simply justice with teeth.

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“I could have been a contender, if I’d cared enough.”

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Future is like an asshole. Everybody has one.---John Taylor (Nightside Series)

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While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

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“Just because we protect the world, it doesn’t mean the world is always grateful.”

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There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

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“What’s one more crazy thing in the midst of all this weirdness?”

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Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

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“Steal from the best, and call it research!”

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“Sometimes you can’t save everyone. Sometimes all you can do... is kill a whole bunch of people.”

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No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that…

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You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?

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“you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”

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When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

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“You’re the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.”

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Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.

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There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute…

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The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little…

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It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily…

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“He has also worked as a shop assistant, bicycle-repair mechanic, journalist, actor, eccentric dancer, and mail-order bride. He has never worked for…

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“Well, basically, I thought I’d cut the creature’s heart out and jam the suppressor stone into the hole,” said Hawk. “That should…

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Who ... what are they?" "My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business.…

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“I ignored him, concentrating on Lilith. "According to the stories, after you were expelled from Eden you went down into Hell, where…

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The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds…

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“I saw myself as a knight-errant...but the damsel in distress stabbed me in the back, my sword shattered on the dragon's hide,…

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Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away.…

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“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed…

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“Were we in love, really? We were very young. And everything seems so sharp and intense, when you're a teenager. Emotions surge…

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“See, phrenology is this old Victorian science, which claimed you could determine the dominant traits of a man's personality by studying the…

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“Though we nearly lost everything last month, when the mainframe got possessed by Sumerian demons, and we had to call in a…

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We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There…

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“Too many people live the lives other people think they ought to, following orders they don't agree with, for causes they don't…

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“I kept expecting the nurses and patients to come suddenly alive, and raise the alarm, or even attack us. Instead, the nurses…

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Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

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I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me

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When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

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“The light may cast many reflections but is it still the light that matters.”

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